Melissa, Greg, Chris, and our new pastor intern, Paul Rosenwinkel dig into this pull toward balance and what it might mean to be well-lopsided for us as individuals.

Feeling the knot of stress in your gut already as you try to figure out how are you going to balance it all this year? Ok, if Jacob’s Well’s job is to help us look at life in a bigger, 3rd sort of way, then we need it as we look at our fall schedule too. What if we were to tell you balance isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and that you don’t have to chase it? Interested? 

Here's the message outline on our Sunday paper. Find other resources like discussion guides at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers. Also watch for our regular "Leftovers" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.

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Pastor Rob concludes the book of James this week

To Infinity…and Beyond! Hidden Figures is the untold true story of three black women who served as the brains behind NASA’s launch that put John Glenn into orbit. These women not only displayed incredible intelligence and tenacity, but challenged the racial and gender discrimination of their time. While the story took place over 50 years ago, the issues are still relevant. In the wake of Charlottesville, and so many other stories of hatred, ignorance, and discrimination, we have much to learn about ourselves and how to better recognize God in each other.

Here's the message outline on our Sunday paper. Find other resources like discussion guides at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers. Also watch for our regular "Leftovers" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.

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Disney’s latest animated musical tells the story of Moana, a brave girl who dreams of sailing the ocean despite her father’s rule that “no one go beyond the reef.” Encouraged by her grandma to follow in the ways of their ancestors, she sets off on a journey to discover her true identity and save her village. This story illustrates the challenges of following our dreams and the need we all have for others to help us remember who we are.

Here's the message outline on our Sunday paper. Find other resources like discussion guides at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers. Also watch for our regular "Leftovers" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.

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Whether you’ve seen Arrival or not, you’ll catch on to this Oscar winning movie’s mind-stretching challenges of how life works and what’s going on in it. Ted Chiang’s original short story, and director Villeneuve’s film not only make you wonder about those most basic assumptions, but eager to discover that there is more than you imagined. So if you’re open to an alien invasion movie that is more than ‘David defeats Goliath,’ your time has arrived! You should probably even pop a little popcorn.

Here's the message outline on our Sunday paper. Find other resources like discussion guides at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers. Also watch for our regular "Leftovers" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.

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True confessions this week: We're still finding our way in how we address conversations about race and justice and we think we missed something big by letting Charlottesville get squeezed out of our conversation as a community. It's too important to not address together, so we're taking another crack at it in hopes of returning to conversations that we've had many times and finding new places that need addressing within the Jacob's Well community and well beyond it. Thanks for being the kind of community that can have these sustained conversations that are transforming how we see the world. 

Verses:

Matthew 6: 9-13

Proverbs 22: 2, 22-23

James 5: 1-6

Galatians 3: 1

Timothy 6: 6-10

GODFLIX: Sing  At the heart of the movie Sing is the idea of finding and following your passion. The problem for some of us is that that idea of finding our passion makes us either want to vomit or hyperventilate!  Well, let’s try not to do either of those and dive into a deeper idea of passion and how we are wired for this bigger vision that God sees in all of us.

Here's the message outline on our Sunday paper. Find other resources like discussion guides at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers. Also watch for our regular "Leftovers" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.

You can support Jacob's Well as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at jacobs-well.net/give. Thank you!